ARK Survival Evolved 2.68 Patch Notes for PS4 (696.6)

Ark Survival Evolved update 2.68 patch notes for PS4 (696.6) and Xbox One (940.9) are now available to download. According to the official ARK Survival Evolved 2.68 patch notes, the latest update added new ARK Fear Evolved 5 event to the game. Apart from this, Ark Survival Evolved version 2.68 also includes balancing and bug fixes.

Previously, a big update added new features, fixes, and changes. Unfortunately, since the last patch, players are still experiencing several issues while playing the game online.

Today’s ARK Survival Evolved patch 2.68 will fix a few of these errors.

ARK Survival Evolved 2.68 Patch Notes

Fear Evolved 5 Event

Rates

Official Servers: 3x XP, Harvesting, Taming, and Breeding, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
Small Tribe Servers: 4.5x XP, 4.5x Harvesting, 4.5x Taming, and 4x Breeding, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
ARKPocalypse: 5x XP, 5x Harvesting, 5x Taming, and 5x Breeding, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
Conquest: 4.5x XP, 4.5x Harvesting, 4.5x Taming, and 4x Breeding, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus

Go scouting for all the past Fear Evolved content while treating yourself to 5 new spooky themed chibi’s, 2 new full-body skins, and 4 new shirt prints to add to your growing collection!

Spooky Encounters

DodoRex (Untamable Boss)
DodoWyvern (Untamable Boss)
Zomdodo
Zombie Fire Wyvern (claimable & persist after Fear Evolved)
Zombie Lightning Wyvern (claimable & persist after Fear Evolved)
Zombie Poison Wyvern (claimable & persist after Fear Evolved)
Skeletal Giganotosaurus
Skeletal Quetzal
Skeletal Jerboa
Bone Fire Wyvern
Skeletal Bronto
Skeletal Stego
Skeletal Trike
Skeletal Raptor
Skeletal Rex
Skeletal Carnotaurus
Ghost Reaper (Surface reapers)
Ghost Bulbdog
Ghost Rex
Ghost Basilisk
Ghost Snow Owl
Ghost Mantis
Ghost Direwolf

Event Chibis (acquired via killing Dodowyvern/Dodorex or Cooking Pot recipe)

The Witching Owl *new*
Ghost Direwolf *new*
Ghost Basilisk *new*
Ghost Rex *new*
Ghost Mantis *new*
Skeletal Giganotosaurus
Skeletal Quetzal
Skeletal Jerboa
Skeletal Bronto
Skeletal Stego
Skeletal Trike
Skeletal Raptor
Skeletal Rex
Skeletal Carnotaurus
Bone Wyvern
Zombie Wyvern

Ghost Creature Skins (acquired via killing Ghost creatures)

Reaper
Bulbdog
Rex
Basilisk
Snow Owl
Mantis
Direwolf

Items

Pumpkin
Stolen Headstone
Scarecrow
Dinosaur Bone
Dino Candy Corn

Emotes (acquired via Cooking Pot recipe)

Scare Emote
Knock Emote
Zombie Emote
Dance Emote
Panic Emote

Skins (acquired via Cooking Pot recipe)

Strawman costume *new*
Skeleton costume *new*
Skelly Print Shirt *new*
Tentacle Print Shirt *new*
ZombDodo Print Shirt *new*
Zombie Wyvern Print Shirt *new*
Reaper Swimsuit Skin
Jack-O-Lantern Swimsuit Skin
Pumpkin Helmet Skin
Headless Costume Skin
Hockey Mask Skin
Araneo Swimsuit Skins
Onyc Swimsuit Skins
Vampire Dodo Swimsuit Skins

Creature Event Colors

Dino Darker Grey
Dino Light Blue
Dino Dark Yellow
DragonBase1
Light Brown
Light Grey
Dino Light Brown
Dino Dark Brown
DragonFire
Vermillion
ActualBlack
MidnightBlue
MediumAutumn
DarkWarmGray
Orange
DarkLavender
Jade

Bug Fixes

Balance
Blood Stalker

Reduced piercing damage from 85% to 65%.
Players grappled now get a 20 second immunity buff from being webbed by the Bloodstalker again
No longer unequips player’s melee weapon when webbed

Wyverns

Reduced Wyvern HP gained per level by approximately 20%
Reduced armour penetration on Lightning Wyvern beam attack by approx 20%
Buffed Fire Wyvern right-click attack by approx 30%
Prevented Void Wyvern from performing a right-click attack unless mounted by a rider

Adjusted Wyvern base drag weight to match Crystal Wyverns so that they behave similarly against items that take this into consideration, such as the Net Ammo. (Therefore Fire, Lightning, and Poison Wyverns can now be netted).

Noglin

Now targetable by Plant X
Takes reduced damage from Plant X when attached to a player

Net Ammo

Increased durability usage on Harpoon Gun for net ammo specifically. Cost per net fired increased by approx 250%
Increased weight of weight ammo from 0.2 to 2.0

Mammoth

Prevented being dismounted from creature when you are buffed by the Mammoth
Mammoth war drummer now gets 40% damage mitigation whilst drumming

Shadowmane

Reduced the range the stun attack can target horizontally by 20%
Increased the holding space bar jump distance by 20%

Reduced how many targets the Shadowmane can chain stun when right-click is held to 7 targets from 15 targets

Increased cooldown of teleport attack from 4.5 seconds to 15 seconds and each target added increases the cooldown by 2 seconds rather than 1 second – Increased the length of the immunity buff after a player has been stunned by the Shadowmane from 30 seconds to 50 seconds.
Reduced passive creature armour from 124 to 80 and reduces its armour gained per level by 35%

Global Stun Immunity Buff

The following dismounts will now respect an overriding dismount immunity buff when the effect is created by any of the following creatures and items:

Void Wyvern
Shadowmane
Netgun
Flash bang (Plant Z Grenade)

Miscellaneous Balance

Prevented the Exo mek from filling turrets that have recently fired
Increased Megalosaurus damage with the night time buff by approx 25%
Increased Tek Turret HP by 100%

Quality of Life and Misc.

Increased slots on the Industrial Grinder from 60 to 120
Expanded the Tek Cloner register range by 3x
Reduced Tek Surveillance Console Stack Size from 100 to 5
Display a HUD whilst holding H with tek Glove equipped displaying player location and upload timer
Increased Magmasaur’s smelting output by 100%
Enabled auto-harvest on Ankylosaurus
Enabled breeding on Rockdrakes
Enabled breeding on Achatina
Fixed some exploits
Addressed an issue where TEK Stryders and MEKs would not regain health in stasis
Addressed an issue where MEK modules would lose durability when released from cryopod
Two new admin commands: cheat drainwater <number> and cheat drainfood <number>
Addressed an issue where the Dedicated Storage Box would ignore stack modifiers in server config files
Addressed an issue where caused Plant Z to no longer heal dinos
Addressed an issue where Soap would remove textures from some structures
Addressed an issue where Cosmetics on the Shadowmane would not retain their colour

v695.26 – 10/13/2021

Fixed an exploit

@XBOX/Win10

v695.10 (client) – 10/12/2021

Fixed multiple client crashes
Fixed some skins not displaying
Addressed an issue which prevented players from getting their bionic dinosaur skins

v695.23 – 10/08/2021

Temporarily prevented the Noglin from gaining torpidity

v695.22 – 10/05/2021

Addressed an issue that prevented players from teleporting to the Genesis Part 1 boss fight
Fixed a server crash

v695.20 – 10/01/2021

Fixed an exploit

v695.17 – 09/29/2021

Fixed an exploit

v695.15 – 09/27/2021

Addressed an issue where players wouldn’t be able to interact with HLNA in some cases
Addressed an issue where players were unable to teleport to the other biomes in Genesis Part 1
Fixed a server crash

v695.13 (.8 client) – 09/23/2021

Refactored TEK Dedicated Storage. This is a rework of the structure for server optimization, it should improve stability across the board due to huge memory-savings on large/active servers. It will generally function the same. You can still deposit and withdraw, but there are a few changes to be noted:
- Dedicated Storage Boxes will now display their quantity in front of the box
- You’ll now be able to slot cap yourself directly using the Transfer All button when using the dedicated storage and it will ignore your weight.
- You’ll no longer see an inventory inside the dedicated storage box when opening it, don’t worry, your items are still there.
- You’ll no longer be able to popcorn (Spamming the ‘O’ key to drop items) from the dedicated storage directly, (but you can now transfer a slot cap into your own inventory and popcorn from there).
- Added 3 more buttons to Dedicated Storage boxes to withdraw 1, 5, and 10 items.
Addressed an issue where Explorer Notes would not unlock properly on Genesis Part 1 and Genesis Part 2. Any missing Genesis Part 2 note can be re-collected, and Genesis Part 1 notes should be fixed retroactively however may require you to respawn on Genesis Part 1.
Addressed an issue where some Japanese VO/subtitles weren’t showing
Addressed an issue with TEK Dedicated Storage tribe rankings
Addressed an issue where Wild Shadowmanes would not use their teleport attack
Addressed an issue with the Shadowmane Jump
Addressed an issue that prevented items from being repaired in Dino Inventories that functioned as Smithies
Addressed an issue where items would lose quality when placed and picked up
Addressed an issue where some boss items could not be placed
Addressed an issue with HLNA not playing her dialogue
Addressed an issue with some buffs not displaying their icons properly
Addressed an issue where the Raft and Motorboat couldn’t be used in some water areas of Genesis Part 2
Addressed an issue where the TEK Stryder’s name was not being used for its bed
Addressed an issue where players wouldn’t be able to build on the Megachelon’s platform
Addressed an issue where players could lose items on the Loadout Mannequin when using a non-human dermis
Addressed an issue which caused players on Stegos to die when teleported to a Genesis Part 2 missions
Addressed an issue where the Stryder’s bed would be duplicated on the client’s map each server restart
Addressed an issue where the charge battery would not recharge when in stasis
Addressed an issue where Eggs inside of an incubator would visually disappear when unrendered
Addressed an issue that allowed Genesis Loot Crates to be dropped
Addressed an issue where the Loadout Mannequin would break when using blueprints
Addressed an issue where mutagen bulbs would fall through the map
Addressed an issue where placed weapons could sometimes be invisible on platforms
Fixed some localization bugs
Fixed some level design related bugs such as holes, floating foliage, incorrect volumes etc.
Fixed multiple exploits
Fixed multiple server and client crashes
Fixed multiple server stalls
Fixed multiple bugs with the Noglin related to character/dino possession
Made some balance tweaks to the Hunt missions on Genesis Part 2
Removed some redundant options in the metal elevator platform multiuse wheel

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